{"id":11839,"date":"2025-07-21T01:59:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11839\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T01:59:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:59:18","slug":"canada-misses-out-on-bronze-at-fiba-u19-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11839\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada misses out on bronze at FIBA U19 Women\u2019s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michigan guard Syla Swords (12) led Canada’s women’s under-19 team in scoring, with 15.9 points per game. Canada finished fourth in the tournament.John Mersits\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Somtochukwu-Blessed Okafor hit the go-ahead three-pointer with 1:17 left as Spain spoiled Canada\u2019s effort to repeat as a bronze medallist with a 70-68 win at the FIBA Under-19 Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup.<\/p>\n

Canada was down two entering the fourth quarter and was up 67-65 with just over two minutes left. Ada Toribio tied it for Spain with a layup with 2:02 remaining.<\/p>\n

After a missed floater by Canada\u2019s Cearah Parchment with 1:31 left, Okafor hit the dagger to give her a game-high of 23 points. <\/p>\n

Avery Howell hit one of her two free throws with 1:07 remaining but Canada fell short of inching any closer.<\/p>\n

Canada fell to Australia 87-75 in the semifinals on Saturday resulting in its appearance in the bronze-medal game. Spain lost to the United States 70-58 in the other semifinal. <\/p>\n

Syla Swords led Canada, which won bronze in 2023, with 20 points. The University of Michigan star finished as Canada\u2019s leading scorer in the tournament with 15.9 points per contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Michigan guard Syla Swords (12) led Canada’s women’s under-19 team in scoring, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-11839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}